CRD/TI Armenia Executive Director Sona Ayvazyan led a public discussion on "The Operation of the Teghut Copper-Molybdenum Mine" on Monday, November 19. Organized by the Ecological Public Alliance and the Partnership for Open Society Initiative, the public hearing brought together environmentalists, representatives of governmental, commercial, non governmental, international organizations and media outlets to consider the pros and cons of the Teghut mine exploitation project. "The government decision on Teghut mine exploitation was untimely. The discussions on this issue were not finished, the opinions were incompatible, and there was no consensus on the problem," said Sona Ayvazyan.

The non governmental organizations participating in the event expressed their standpoints and arguments in an Open letter.

The text of the Open Letter in Armenian